I love the assumption that all leftists were coddled as kids. I’m a communist because I grew up in a trailer park next to a Con-Agra grain tower along a railroad in Iowa. My mom died of cancer because we were poor and uninsured for 10 years, and my dad’s an abusive piece of shit.

Sickening. Just another example of devs’ revisionist history to please SJWs.

God bless Black Vulture Bloc

Honestly, I can’t believe we got 7 years of this wonderful and weird show. It really hit a stride when they started exploring the stranger parts of the Marvel universe, and the last couple of seasons have felt a lot like Farscape at its best.

Speaking as an organizer who works mostly with immigrants and refugees these days: a lot of us were condemning and working against this under Obama, and we’re continuing to condemn it under Trump. Doesn’t matter which administration authorizes it, ICE raids, immigration detention, and deportation are deplorable forms…

Thanks for this, Paul, it’s really good.

I’m really disappointed that Oregon Governor Kate Brown killed a similar proposal here, in exchange for votes on another piece of legislation. I’ve written about this before, but I have a personal stake in this: I’m allergic to the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine, which causes me to develop multiform hives. Because…

This was a really dope article, thank you. Eid Mubarak!

Absolutely. A comrade and I were disciplined by the union we worked for because we had the audacity to suggest we shouldn’t just hand $5000 in member dues to Oregon’s tepid centrist Governor with a track record of being uniquely bad on transportation issues. Folks really want to believe that they can hand Democrats…

Yep. I know it’s an overdetermined question, but the expulsion of communists and socialists from labor pre- and post-Taft-Hartley was one of the most expert things the right-wing and their centrist collaborators have done to hobble labor.

100% this. Saying this got me pushed out of my job as a union organizer, but locals are better off pulling their money out of political contributions and spending it dollar-for-dollar on member organizing, as well as resourcing community partner organizations to create a united organizing front.

I want to second this plug, both City of Brass and Kingdom of Copper are WONDERFUL, enthralling stories from a damn fine author.

Oregonian here. Thanks for covering this story, Nick.

Why should a student be singled out and punished because of their parents’ inability to pay bills, whatever is causing it?

Meanwhile, in Portland, right-wing chuds showed up to attack some antifascists at a bar last night: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2019/05/police-investigating-large-fight-between-antifa-far-right-group-members-outside-ne-portland-bar.html

Too late, buddy.

It’s always interesting to me that folks distinguish between asylum seekers and “economic migrants.” Let’s say your economy has been gutted by a free-trade agreement (let’s call it, hypothetically, NAFTA) which has, over 25 years, obliterated small-scale local agriculture by forcing small producers to compete with…

Participating in democratic institutions and advancing socialist politics aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m a pretty orthodox Marxist-Leninist (that is, a communist), and I was also a lobbyist for 5 years in Oregon. I continue to engage on a lot of local public policy campaigns; my political ideology informs what I…

This one is mind-boggling to me, because the Federation’s economy is canonically socialist.

Love too live in the hell world where incredible ignorance of Nazism is better than the alternative.